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CentOS 6 / 7 : firefox (CESA-2017:3382)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 105060

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a securityimpact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) basescore, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for eachvulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser.This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.5.1 ESR.Security Fix(es) :* A privacy flaw was discovered in Firefox. In Private Browsing mode,a web worker could write persistent data to IndexedDB, which was notcleared when exiting and would persist across multiple sessions. Amalicious website could exploit the flaw to bypass private-browsingprotections and uniquely fingerprint visitors. (CVE-2017-7843)Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting thisissue. Upstream acknowledges Konark as the original reporter.